Stories categorised in 'Mediterranean and European waters'. These stories may contain references to other themes.
En route to Scapa Flow, Barham had a disastrous collision with HMS Duchess and was later torpedoed off the...
Change in our geographic position made our mails home very irregular and infrequent, so I thought it better...
Among the officers reported missing is Lieutenant Harold Jackson Cholerton RNR of Brighton, navigating...
Alfred Longbottom of Halifax in West Yorkshire spent the Second World War years in the Royal Navy and three...
Merchant Navy 'Pools' were established at all the main ports and all shipping was controlled by the...
HOOD VALIANT RESOLUTION ARK ROYAL ARETHUSA ENTERPRISE 6 E + F Destroyers and 5 of 13th DF HMS KEPPEL...
19:16 “Duke of York” and “Scharnhorst” start firing at each other and Starshell...
V.E Day found us back in Poole Harbour, other ships anchored there also, most ships' companies partying...
Extract from Diary of Leading Seaman Thomas Nevin during passage of HMS Birmingham from Scapa Flow to...
The fight was raging fast and furious, with more bombers showing signs of distress, and the anti-aircraft...
En route to Scapa Flow, Barham had a disastrous collision with HMS Duchess and was later torpedoed off the...
While in London, I was trained as a Gunnery Offcier by the Royal Navy. Because the Channel was too tricky,...
Before he went away on 17 January 1944 to begin Basic in Ohio, his sister gave him a diary and a photo...
The destroyer was destined to remain in the eastern Mediterranean, so from Alexandria she patrolled and saw...
However, on Christmas Eve, I met with Hearson ashore and we had a quiet evening enjoying good food and...
We got as far as Benghazi and we then got posted to Greece, so had to come back to Alexandria and got...
Opening a door marked ‘Crew Only’ we descended to a deck from which he found an intact stairway...
After two months undergoing repairs in Durban, South Africa, Barham sailed on July 31st, 1941 to re-join...
My thoughts on St. Valentine's Day are perhaps unusual and for me it is difficult to bring to mind...
En route to Scapa Flow, Barham had a disastrous collision with HMS Duchess and was later torpedoed off the...
After that we called in at Gibraltar and then sailed to New York where we collected a cargo of aircraft and...
The so-called ambush occurred whilst I was a crew member of Her Majesty's Gun Boat 657 in May 1943......
Our job was to patrol the North Sea between Scotland and Norway, protecting Royal Navy vessels in the area...
HMS 'Bedouin' in the Mediterranean "In June 1942, 22-year old Sherard Manners was 1st...
On arrival at Plymouth, Bellona was fitted with equipment for jamming the radio signals that controlled the...
When we went into action, we fired 1150 rockets to strafe the beach before the landings....
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